Doctors Can Heal by Suggestion
Doctors should have a thorough knowledge of the science of suggestion. Sincere, sympathetic doctors are very rare. Doctors who have no knowledge of suggestion do more harm than good. They kill patients sometimes by unnecessarily frightening them.
If there is a little cough of an ordinary nature, the doctor says: “Now, my friend, you have got T.B. You must go to Bhowali or Switzerland or Vienna. You must go in for a course of tuberculin injection.” Poor patient is frightened. There is not at all any sign of consumption. The case is an ordinary one. It is simple catarrh of the chest from exposure to chills. The patient actually develops phthisis by fright and worry owing to the wrong destructive suggestion of the doctor.
The doctor ought to have told him: “Oh, it is nothing. It is simple cold. You will be all right by tomorrow. Take a purgative and inhale a little oil of eucalyptus. Adjust your diet. It is better you fast today.” Such doctor is God Himself. He must be adored.
A doctor may say now: “Well, sir, if I say so, I will lose my practice. I cannot pull on in this world.” This is a mistake. Truth always gains victory. People will run to you as you are sympathetic and kind. You will have a roaring practice.
There is healing by suggestion. This is a drugless treatment. This is suggestive therapeutics. By good and powerful suggestion, you can cure any disease. You will have to learn this science and practice it. All doctors of Homeopathic, Allopathic, Ayurvedic and Unani systems should know this science. They can combine this system along with their own systems. They will have a roaring practice by this happy combination.
- Courtesy by Sri Swami Sivananda
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This article gave me some good ideas and directions to head off in.
A good doctor should tell her patient the truth – she should not be a fear-monger, but she also should not lie or hide the truth. As a patient, I want my doctor to tell me all the possibilities. I don’t want her to tell me, “it’s just a cold” if I might have T.B. I want her to tell me, “it’s probably just a cold, but I’ll run some tests because T.B has been going around”. I need all the facts.
Interesting, I hadn’t heard of healing by suggestion before. In some cases this is a good way to practice but a doctor also has the responsibility to tell the truth to his patients.